Has John Muir received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,000 in general payments to John Muir across 32 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean John Muir did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about John Muir come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

John Muir

Optometrist · Howell, MINPI 1639161615

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,000in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 32 payments — averaging $156.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Alcon$2K
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$2K
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$140
Coopervision Inc.$130
LKC Technologies, Inc.$95
Optos, Inc.$20

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$751%
Travel & lodging$3,94279%
Food & beverage$96319%
Entertainment$200%

General payments by program year

Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

Company	Payments	Total
Alcon	7	$2,467
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	17	$2,149
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.	2	$140
Coopervision Inc.	3	$130
LKC Technologies, Inc.	2	$95
Optos, Inc.	1	$20

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

How this compares

$5,000 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,523 optometrist providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$170,849

Medicare patients

474

Services billed

759

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Cyclosporine	45	$13,585

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other optometrist in Howell

Jamie KuzniarBloomfield$473K
Monica JohnsonbaughGrosse Pointe$393K
Frances Poma NowinskiBloomfield Twp$277K
Nicholas BrunsFlint$252K
Scott SchwartzClinton$218K
Jay CrankGrand Rapids$209K
Jeffrey VaranelliWarren$204K
Thomas RothAnn Arbor$98K
Jason TuchowskiFraser$97K
Steven BennettAnn Arbor$79K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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